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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2016
There exists already a considerable literature about a mathematical approach to the description and control of malaria (see Ross (1911); Martini (1921); Lotka (1923); Moshkovskii (1950); Macdonald (1957), (1968)). This note gives an outline of the main assumptions of a simulation model which has been developed in close co-operation with epidemiologists, entomologists and immunologists in connection with a field project in Northern Nigeria where the necessary data for testing the model are being collected.